Until a recent email I would have had to admit that I didn't know anything about the existence of a man named Gideon Pitts (1807...

On the 24th of August 2019 a generation closed, but more importantly, a beautiful life ended. Aunt Ruthie was the youngest and last surviv...

Many of our family member's grave-sites are listed on the Find A Grave website. However, even though this website provides the opportu...

    She was described as New York City's first supermodel, the embodiment of the "classical ideal" of beauty, and as "the...

    The following post is in a way an update of a much earlier post, Did You Know? #24 (June 20, 2010). In that post we looked at two famili...

Way back in 2009 I posted an entry with this blog about our family's connection with Aaron Burr, a Vice President of the United Stat...

In The Waggoner Family, A History of the Emigrant Hans Waggoner and His Descendants , cited in Part 1 (the previous post), the followi...